Norway's XT4

Cray announced today that the University of Bergen in Norway will be pulling the shrink wrap off a shiny new 50 TFLOPS XT4 later this year at the Bergen Center for Computational Science (BCCS).

“The new Cray supercomputer will increase the computational power available to our broad community of Norwegian and international users by a factor of 100 and will enable them to run much larger and more complex problems,” said Professor Petter E. Bjorstad, director of the Bergen Center for Computational Science. “The University of Bergen has strategic research initiatives within marine sciences, climate and life sciences that will benefit enormously from this decision.”

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